“Perception. What did we see? What did we really see? And what did we want to see?

A number of columns ago, I wrote about a particularly bloody college football game between two Big 10 teams, a fierce, decades-long rivalry. The winning team lost two quarterbacks to injuries; the losing team lost with its second-string signal-caller at the controls.

Kudos to Attorney General Hector Balderas for finally making the Behavioral Health Provider Audit’s Final Report public, something his predecessor refused to do.

We’re also glad that Balderas, who took over as attorney general just one month ago, is acknowledging that the manner in which the state has handled these allegations was flawed and that improvements have to be made to ensure services that citizens depend on are not disrupted.

Remember the sign that James Carville, then a strategist for Bill Clinton in his 1992 run for the presidency, put up at campaign headquarters? “It’s the economy, stupid” was the simple message he posted, so campaign workers would stay on message — and, indeed, they did.